Lot 206
Newton, Isaac
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 7 September 2011 at 12:00 BST
Description
A treatise of the system of the world. London: B. Motte & C. Bathurst, 1737. Third edition, 8vo, half-title, 2 engraved plates, numerous diagrams in text, contemporary calf, double gilt fillet to boards, neatly rebacked
Footnote
Note: This is the second English translation of the DE MUNDI SYSTEMATE and was originally intended to form the third part of the PRINCIPIA. The preface contains an extract from the beginning of the PRINCIPIA. Newton also points to the possibility of Terrestrial Tidal Effects, subsequently discovered by Michelson in 1919. He also postulates the existence of the planet Uranus which was first seen by Herschel in 1781.
Provenance: James Ibbetson, D.D., armorial bookplates